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13th Ave. at High St., Eugene • 344-5221
Local rcstauranteur Pat O'Con
nell didn't set out solely to take on
“the Big Three" hamburger
restaurants. The leader.
McDonald's, has over 7 million
stores and is currently opening 500
more each week! Pat has only one
hamburger store, at 13th & High
in Eugene, and his aim is quality
— not quantity. Since adding in
door seating to their present loca
tion last winter. Great Oregon
Burger has enjoyed continual
monthly increases in sales. And
there isn't a day that goes by when
somebody doesn't comment,
“...boy, that was good. ... the
best burger ... I've heard you have
the best ....“ With that kind of un
solicited endorsement, it’s easy to
understand why Arlene and Pat’s
four other employees feel so good
about their work. They make
everybody happy.
Pat didn’t go to “hamburger
college." in fact he had no
restaurant background at all. Rais
ed in Oakridge and Klamath Falls,
he joined the Marines in the early
60's, settled in San Diego (work
ing for soda pop giant Coca Cola),
but longed to move back to
Oregon. So in 1975 he returned to
Eugene and joined the booming
real estate business. Five years
later he purchased the kitchen
trailer that was to become the
home of The Great Oregon
Burger Company.
He opened for business on the
site where it stood, next to the
Sunny Station near LCC. Nine
months later brother/partner
Michael discovered and helped ac
quire their present location. Pat
has added on twice since then, just
recently to restore the outside
seating that was sacrificed for the
indoor seating. No matter where
you like to eat them. Great Oregon
Burgers are great — made from
100% beef with all the trimmings
and served with individually
prepared orders of french fries or
onion rings. Each order is in
dividually prepared and quickly
served. You can avoid any wait by
phoning your order in; 344-5221.
They’re open 7 days a week, 10
am till midnight.
Although Pat is looking to open
more Great Oregon Burger loca
tions in the future, he assures me
that: ‘‘Quality will always remain
the focus — we’ll never become a
hamburger factory.”
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Voters to decide sheriff's levy 1
Controversial levy
gets third chance
By Michele Matassa
Of the Emerald
Imagine being home aione ai
night and hearing a prowler
tamper with the lock on your
front door. You begin to dial the
phone to call for a patrol officer,
but then you set the receiver
down in a panic.
There are no patrol officers.
For more than 2Vi months
Lane County rural residents
have been potential victams of
this situation.
On June 28 county voters
repeated a May vote refusing to
levy taxes for the county sheriff's
office. They rejected a $2.9
million law enforcement levy,
eliminating all sheriff's patrols.
As a result, Sheriff Dave Burks
laid off 53 people, and all
residents outside the Eugene ci
ty limits were left vulnerable.
Tuesday, voters will get a third
chance to reinstate the patrols,
only this time the levy is a pared
down version: $806,571. The
sheriff's office will receive
$697,000; the rest of the money
will support election costs and
offset uncollected taxes.
If the levy passes, Burks will
hire 24 officers, including four
resident deputies at Blue River,
Oakridge, Cottage Grove and
Florence. Also, the office will be
able to staff three communica
tions personnel and maintain
nine patrol cars.
This will enable the sheriff's
office to respond to calls for
crimes in progress and life
threatening situations, Burks
says.
The Lane County Board of
Commissioners, by a 3-2 vote,
decide Aug. 17 to schedule Tues
day's levy after Burks began
threatening a lawsuit (see page
3) because it had not adequately
funded the public safety
department.
And Burks made good on the
threat.
"I know the county is an
ticipating up to $800,000 in
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Since June 28, some rural communities surrounding Eugene have
been without sherriff patrol officers, but if Tuesday's levy passes, 24
patrol officers will be reinstated to protect those communities.
timber revenues, and I know
that they've already divvied out a
way to spend that. And very little
of any of it has been designated
to the public safety department.
"They continue to put me out
to the public and they won't sup
port the issue; therefore, I don't
think I have any other choice but
to litigate the legal issue, which
is ‘Do they have to fund me and
how much?' " Burks says.
Although Burks feels a signifi
cant number of people "want
the sheriffs back on the road,"
he isn't optimistic about the out
come of Tuesday's vote.
Although Burks says the levy
has a better chance than
previous levies because it is
smaller, he doesn't think it will
pass without total support from
the county commissioners.
"I'm not going out and order
ing everybody back to work, not
until the 21st," Burks says.
For most people, Burks says,
the absence of a sheriff's patrol
isn't real.
"For the most part, they'd pro
bably not notice a bit of dif
ference. But for those people
who are victims of those kinds of
incidents, then it becomes very
real," he says.
"I had a person call me the
other day, for instance, and say
he hadn't seen any crime go up,
he hadn't had his place
burglarized. That's fine; he
wasn't willing to pay any more
taxes. But on the other hand,
had his daughter been raped or
his stereo been stolen while he
was gone, he would be highly
upset."
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